THE BOSNIAN WAR has come to be known more for its massacres than its battles. Few stories have emerged of individual heroism in combat or valor in the face of an equally armed enemy. There have been no medals or tombs for unknown soldiers. No monuments to glory have been consecrated. The only "virtue" to have arisen during these three and a half years of viciousness is so instinctive as to nearly strip it of any honor. That instinct is for survival and it was elicited with painful regularity in Bosnia.

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The survival instinct surfaced within the Serbian-run camp near Banja Luka among the Croats who escaped the mass throat-cuttings there and at a similar camp near Prijedor, where Muslims saved themselves from being...